Early Modern Sussex: An Exhibition

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Chichester Cathedral

Barnard Panels I

Barnard Panels II

Barnard Panels III

Barnard’s other Sussex work

Robert Sherborn (1508 – 36)

Day (1543 – 51)Scory (1552 – 3)

Barlow (1559 – 68)King (1642 – 6, 1660 – 9)

John and William Cawley

Echoes

Boxgrove Priory

Boxgrove Priory

St. Botolph’sHardham

The temptation. Positioned inside the sanctuary along with further scenes from Genesis, including ‘Eve milking a strange beast’.

St.Mary’s West Chiltington

St. Mary’sWest Chiltington

St. Mary’s slit,West Chiltington

St. Margaret’sWest Hoathly

De La Warre chantrychapelBoxgrove

De La Warr chantry chapel Boxgrove

18th century graffiti

Buried altar, St. Mary’sWest Chiltington

West Grinstead

Top: Relics of Francis Bell (executed 1643).

Possibly warning or sanctus bell.

Travelling chalice, base and cup unscrew to enable concealment and transport. Attributed to Bell.

16th/17th century chalice Altar stone, again, part of

‘kit’ for recusant priests travelling between communities.

West Grinstead ‘hide’

Font, Holy Trinity,Cuckfield

Cuckfield, wealth from iron

St. Margaret’sWest Hoathly

Iron wealth, West Hoathly

Iron

St. Swithun’s, East Grinstead

Firebacks, Priest’s House, West Hoathley

Left: Wealden Fireback. Three initials may suggest a couple, possibly to commemorate or celebrate a marriage.

Right: Flemish or Flemish-inspired 17th century fireback.

16th century Wealden firebacks

Left: Scissors possibly indicates trade of owner or a re-usable pattern.

Right: Hand-imprint may be a mistake made during molding process.

More 16th century Wealden iron firebacks

Political or commemorative firebacks

Left: Commemoration of the defeat of the Armada (16th century).

Right: Suggestions that this 17th century piece is a protest against the Cromwell regime.

(Anne of Cleves House)

More politics

Left: Charles I (English, 17th century). Right: Two cavaliers holding pikes. Possibly based on

German model (English, 17th century). (Anne of Cleves House)

Top left: Abraham and Isaac (Flemish or Dutch, 17th century)Top right: King David (Flemish or Dutch, 1667)Bottom left: Book of Esther (Germany, 17th century)Bottom right: Christ and the woman of Samaria (Flemish or Dutch, 17th – 18th c)

Religious firebacks

Possibly pre-Reformation fireback.

See also Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for ‘The Three Children’, scene from the Book of Daniel.

Martyrs Fireback

Acts and Monuments (1563, 1570)Probable imported woodblock, as with Farrar/Carver illustration, used in conjunction with two different narrative.

In the 1563 and 1570 editions, it illustrates the deaths of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at Norwich.

In the 1583 edition, it now illustrates the deaths of Gouch and Driver’s wife. There are no images of Miller and Cooper in the 1583 edition.

Left: Farrar’s death is illustrated with this image in the 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions, replacing the original image used in 1563.Right: Carver’s image, used in 1570, 1576 and 1583, is the same image as Farrar (obviously).

Left: Burning of 10 martyrs at Lewes (22nd June 1557, date of Woodman’s execution), found in 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions of Foxe.Right: The Martyrs Fireback

Richard Woodman

John Trewe

EdmundGage

Bradford and

Philpot

EdmundBonner

Alban Langdale

Anthony Browne,Viscount Montague

RalphHogge

PeterBaude Margaret

Henslowe

Philip Henslowe

Edward Alleyn

Arthur LangsworthCulpepper

Ashburnham

Charles I

Constance Donne

John Donne

Henry King

Christopherson

OtherSussex

Martyrs?Other

Sussex Protestants?

EuropeanProtestantism?